My Olympics Complaint…

So, the way I figure, if Travis can complain about the Olympics, then I can to! How in the WORLD can a girl almost fall off the balance beam NUMEROUS times, not really do anything “complicated”, take a step on her landing and still earn a 15.950?! I can tell you how- first, you have to be from the host country (that’d be China if you haven’t paid attention) and then you have to be like 12 years old but have your passport changed to say you are 20 (yeah, right) so that you can compete since the required age is 16. This has now happened THREE TIMES this Olympics and I am looking forward to the commercial break to hear Bela Karoli’s take on it.
1. Chung Fei (I KNOW I spelled her name wrong, but I don’t care) landed a vault ON HER KNEES, among other things, and won the bronze 2 nights ago- knocking out Alicia Sacramone who’s only “issue” seemed to be that she took a step on her landing.
2. Little teeny 10 year old (I don’t remember her name) tied with Nastia for first place last night on the floor but because of the “computer” ranking, Nastia was given the silver?! Nastia’s routine looked better, flowed better, and looked more difficult. I think the computer is controlled by the Chinese, but that is my personal opinion and since I live in the US, I have that right.
3. Chung Fei (yes, the same girl from #1) just almost fell off the beam several times (I know I counted at least 3,) swung her arms around to keep her balance (supposed to be a deduction,) did single flips instead of flips encompassing the entire beam, AND took a step on her landing and is in first place with a score higher than her qualifying score?! THIS IS CRAZY!

Bela needs to go to the IOC and tell them that their whole Olympic scoring this is wacky and needs to be revamped because it apparently favors home-country folks and poorer performances. Also, why are the judges from countries that have never won Olympic medals in gymnastics?! Maybe that is where they need to start… put the powerhouse countries in the judges seat so it is fair- they will know what they are looking at. Better yet, let me be a judge…I can’t do a flip to save my life, but I have watched enough gymnastics to know what the different techniques are supposed to look like!!

Or, better yet, let’s keep the games out of communist countries- maybe that is where they messed up to begin with. Ok, enough of my vent before I get myself into trouble! HA! If you want to read more gymnastics venting, check out Travis’ blog. He is typing as I type this as well!

The Greatest Pianist I Have Ever Heard

I love instrumental music of all kinds. I even love the “horrible” elevator music played in stores, doctors’ offices, elevators, etc. I am always impressed with the skill of phenomenal musicians such as Yo Yo Ma (cellist) and Anthony Burger (pianist.) I have YET to see Yo Yo Ma in person, but it is on my list of things to do. In fact, he was in the Raleigh-Durham area performing the week before we moved up here. UGH! I was SO CLOSE to accomplishing that goal, but oh well… one day it will happen. I have been blessed to see Anthony Burger twice in concert. I am go grateful for that even more since I learned of his death less than a year after the last time I saw him. He died February 22, 2006 and Travis and I saw him twice in the span of 2 MONTHS while we still lived in Tennessee. He came to our church, First Baptist Dandridge, for the first concert and was phenomenal! Travis and I sat on the second row and several times I had tears in my eyes while watching his hands fly all over the piano. The second time we saw him, he was at another church in our association, New Market Baptist, and we sat in the balcony. Again, it was amazing. When he was at FBC Dandridge, I bought 2 CDs and had them autographed and they are a part of my music treasury. It is amazing the talent that God blessed him with and his willingness to serve the Lord by traveling and sharing about God’s protection and provision in his life- his hands were horribly burnt as an infant and the doctors said he would never move his fingers. He tells audience members at his concert that he still can’t move his fingers- God moves them. Wow! Such a testimony! He died while serving the Lord- he had a heart attack while playing the piano on a Gaither cruise. I hope that when I die, people can say that I died while serving the Lord as well.

Anyway, every now and then, I hear instrumental songs that make me think about him and I will pull out a CD or listen to his songs on my iPod. Today, I was watching TV and “Rhapsody in Blue” was being played and I looked it up on YouTube to see if someone had posted a video of him playing it. There were some videos of that song, but not one that I really liked. Anyway, I did find one of the last Gaither Homecoming that he performed in. It was in South Africa in December 2006. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. PLEASE watch the whole thing- it is amazing to see how fast his fingers can go, how he can play and sing at the same time, AND he can play all over the keyboard with his eyes CLOSED! What a great man of God.

Whoa, CRAZY high school flashback…

I (Steph) was a thrower on my high school track team. For those who don’t know what that means, it means that I threw the shot put (8lb lead cannon ball) and the discus (thick metal frisbee- possibly weighed 4 lbs? Not quite sure though…) I was pretty decent at the shot put. My senior year, I competed in our regional track meet for shot put(1 week after having sinus surgery, I should add) and came in 4th place. This was 1 place off from being able to continue to the lower-state meet in SC. My throw was 33 feet 3 and 1/3 inches! This was also my personal best in a meet- I did have some go further in practice but, alas, they don’t count. Anyway, I was quite excited about that throw and have always been proud of that distance.

I just watched one of the qualifying rounds of women’s shot put for the Olympics and now realize how puny of a throw my “best” is. I just saw several women throw the shotput OVER 60 FEET! That is CRAZY! I was horrible at discus and 64′ (I think- I have tried to block most of those throws out of my memory) was my best in a meet. I did hit 75′ one day in practice but, again, those don’t count. For comparison, we had a girl on our track team who was good at discus throw over 100′ at almost every meet- so, yes, I was horrible and I can admit it. So, I have just seen women who can throw an 8lb shotput ALMOST as far as I could throw a metal frisbee!! That is crazy!

Man, seeing what those women are capable of and knowing how “weak” I have become since graduating from high school, I want to get back into the weight room and “bulk up” again. HA! Maybe that is the motivation I need to start a serious exercise regimen back up once Sam arrives. Travis and I go walking, but it isn’t very regular- just a couple to three times a week right now. My lungs don’t enjoy it too much since Sam has decided to take over some of the space they once occupied and I am TERRIFIED of doing anything that could possibly cause me to have an asthma attack while I am pregnant.

Ok, so I just found out from an online search that the woman, Valerie Vii from New Zealand, won the shotput event at this Olympics threw for 20.56m, or 67.45 feet!! Um… WOW!!!

Just for a good laugh…here is my senior track picture (as best as I could get it) that I can’t remove out of this little photo album that I have it in. Enjoy!!!

Travis officially has a blog and a video of an armless swimmer

Well, Travis has been talking about creating a blog where he can write about things that interest him that might not necessarily pertain to our family. He has officially created it now, so be sure to go visit him. You can click here to go to it or you can look under “friends” on the left side of this page and click on “Travis’ personal blog” OR you can click on “Travis’ page” up at the top and there is a link on that page that will take you there. Also, if you just want to type the website address out yourself it is http://mrunderhill.wordpress.com and it has a Lord of the Rings reference, in case you couldn’t tell. I am trying to help him get some “traffic” on his site, so go visit and leave some love (aka- leave a comment.) I must admit, his posts are quite funny and best understood if you read them outloud, but if you are scared you will look like an idiot reading aloud to yourself then you can survive and catch most of the humor while silently reading. I hope you enjoy!!

Also, we were watching the video of the Afrikan swimmer from the Sydney olympics who could hardly swim. When it was over, YouTube recommended we watch a video about an armless swimmer who beats the other people. Call us cruel, heartless, etc. but we laughed HARD at this video. I laughed so hard that I had tears in my eyes and think I might have had a contraction (ok, not really…) Anyway, we wish they hadn’t stopped recording when they did because want to know how the fella got out of the pool. Please watch this video- it is highly entertaining.

Just a lil’ update…

Well, the biggest news is that we are done with all traveling until after Sam is born! Last week, from Monday morning - Wednesday evening we were in Ridgecrest, NC for SEBTS’ faculty orientation. We had a blast and I really enjoyed getting to know some of the ladies since I don’t really feel like I know a lot of people up here still. When we returned, I was exhausted and vowed that was the end of my traveling. Well, it wasn’t… Thursday night, I fell asleep around 7pm and slept until 10am the next morning. When I woke up, I felt GREAT and called Travis to tell him about it- HA! I told him that if he wanted to go visit his parents, I was up for it. Therefore, we headed that way (basically back to Ridgecrest again- HA!) and had a great weekend visiting with them. You may recall that the last time we went out there, Travis’ brother’s car was loaded on a rollback to go to a shop to get painted. Well, Sunday afternoon, we drove out to see it and take pictures to email to Trey. Below are two of the pictures we took, or you can mouse click on either picture to look at more in our online photo album.

When we arrived back in WF Sunday night, I was slap exhausted and don’t seem to have recovered yet. I have no energy but have managed to do some laundry so Travis doesn’t have to go to work naked- what a relief and I am sure SEBTS folks would thank me if they knew!

Sam is a wiggle worm and I think I am finally reaching that miserable stage of pregnancy. I am sure I am not there yet, as I can still bend over and such but it is getting more difficult. Also, the Braxton Hicks contractions that have been fairly regular since mid-June are becoming more frequent. I have read that is normal and nothing to be concerned about. My main prayer right now, besides for an easy delivery, is that Sam will wait until Labor Day before deciding to make his grand entrance. I will be full term then and so I know everything will be fine. Don’t get too excited, moms, while reading this- we have NO REASON to think he will come early…I am just saying that I want him to be full-term but not late. I have come to grips with the fact that I will probably be delivering a big baby, but I don’t want a preemie.

Anyway, while we were in Ridgecrest, one afternoon we went with some ladies (Travis was the only guy- such a great hubby I have) to the Biltmore Village to go shopping. Obviously, Travis and I couldn’t afford to buy anything but we had fun walking around and looking at stuff. We went in this shop that sold pictures that look like letters and advertised that they could be used in frames to spell out things, such as names. Well, they wanted $8 per 4×6 black and white picture! Given that Travis and I enjoy taking pictures, we knew we could replicate with pictures that have more personal meaning to us and we went out on a photo scavenger hunt to get the letters to spell SAMUEL. All of the pictures were taken in the Biltmore Village and are shown below for your viewing pleasure. We found a black frame that has a pre-cut mat for 6 4×6 photos at Wal-Mart while we were in Ellenboro, so we will probably go get one at our Wally World once we have the money to do so. I am so excited about this photography “project” and think it will look good. Here are the pictures…

Travis also took some flower pictures of some of the daisies at Ridgecrest and I took a picture of the view of the mountains that we had in our room. You can click on the picture below to go to our online album and view those.

Ridgecrest & Biltmore Village

 

Anyway, that is it for now…I will update some more at a later date- I am headed to bed.

I updated my page too… Trav.

So I read the blogs of people I don’t know…

I love reading the Prayer of Hannah blog and the comments that fellow readers leave. I also like to read some of those people’s blogs if some of the titles of their posts sound remotely interesting. I am doing that tonight and came across a blog that had the history of the Bible according to children. Robin, the author of the blog, has children so I am not sure if it is according to her children or others, but regardless…it is HILARIOUS!! I attempted it to read it aloud to Travis and had to stop several times because I was laughing too hard. Gotta love how kids interpret things in their minds!!

In the beginning, which occurred near the start, there was nothing but
God, darkness, and some gas. The Bible says, ‘The Lord thy God is one,’
but I think He must be a lot older than that. Anyway, God said, ‘Give me
a light!’ and someone did. Then God made the world. He split the Adam and
made Eve. Adam and Eve were naked, but they weren’t embarrassed because mirrors
hadn’t been invented yet. Adam and Eve disobeyed God by eating one bad
apple, so they were driven from the garden of Eden. Not sure what they
were driven in though, because they didn’t have cars. Adam and Eve had a son, Cain, who hated his brother as long as he was Abel.

Pretty soon all of the early people died off, except for Methuselah, who
lived to be like a million or something. One of the next important
people was Noah, who was a good guy, but one of his kids was kind of a
ham. Noah built a large boat and put his family and some animals in it.
He asked some other people to join him, but they said they would have to
take a rain check.

After Noah came Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. Jacob was more famous than his
brother, Esau, because Esau sold Jacob his birthmark in exchange for some
pot roast. Jacob had a son named Joseph who wore a really loud sports
coat.

Another important Bible guy is Moses, whose real name was Charlton
Heston. Moses led the Israel Lights out of Egypt and away from the evil
Pharaoh after God sent ten plagues on Pharaoh’s people. These plagues
included frogs, mice, lice, bowels, and no table. God fed the Israel
Lights every day with manicotti.

Then He gave them His top ten commandments. These include don’t lie,
cheat, smoke, dance, or covet your neighbor’s bottom (the Bible uses a
bad word for bottom that I’m not supposed to say. But my Dad uses it
sometimes when he talks about the President). Oh, yeah, I just thought
of one more: Humor thy father and thy mother.

One of Moses’ best helpers was Joshua, who was the first Bible guy to
use spies. Joshua fought the battle of Geritol and the fence fell over
on the town. After Joshua came David. He got to be king by killing a giant with a
slingshot. He had a son named Solomon who had about 300 wives and 500
porcupines. My teacher says he was wise, but that doesn’t sound very
wise to me. After Solomon there were a bunch of major league prophets. One of these
was Jonah, who was swallowed by a big whale and then barfed up on the
shore.

There were also some minor league prophets, but I guess we don’t have to
worry about them. After the Old Testament came the New Testament. Jesus is the star of the
New Testament. He was born in Bethlehem in a barn. (I wish I had been
born in a barn, too, because my Mom is always saying to me, ‘Close the
door! Were you born in a barn?’ It would be nice to say, ‘As a matter
of fact, I was.’)

During His life, Jesus had many arguments with sinners like the Pharisees
and the Republicans. Jesus also had twelve opossums. The worst one was
Judas Asparagus. Judas was so evil that they named a terrible vegetable
after him. Jesus was a great man. He healed many leopards and even preached to some
Germans on the Mount. But the Republicans and all those guys put Jesus
on trial before Pontius the Pilot. Pilot didn’t stick up for Jesus. He just washed his hands instead.

Anyways, Jesus died for our sins, then came back to life again. He went
up to Heaven, but will be back at the end of the Aluminum. His return is
foretold in the book of Revolution.

I hope you enjoyed the Bible history as much as we did!!!

Kershaw Shower

**Warning: this is semi-lengthy with several pictures**

This weekend, my mom, aunt, Peeper, and I travelled to Kershaw, SC for a baby shower. It was a fun shower! There weren’t a lot of pictures taken with my camera (I am hoping my Aunt Jacky will email me some of hers- hint hint,) but I have included a few of my favorites.

My feet have finally been affected by the heat and my pregnancy. They are swollen the majority of the time now! UGH! I have been having to put bags of frozen english peas on them to help reduce the swelling. I am also trying to drink an exorbitant amount of water to keep the swelling down. At the shower, I was informed that I “had” to keep my feet propped up while opening gifts and I think it made for funny pictures!

The following pics are of some close family friends of ours. The lady sitting beside my mom (she is the woman in blue) is my mom’s best friend and my adopted mom. I grew up across the street from them and her son, Nathan, drove me to middle and high school (until he graduated and I was old enough for a license.) His sister, Bonnie, was able to come to the shower and that is her in the black and white shirt beside her oldest daughter. Bonnie and her husband and Nathan sung in our wedding. She also has an adorable 4.5 month old that I will post a pic of in just a little bit. The next picture is of a lady from Florence (and her daughter) who also lived in our subdivision and went to our church. Hannah (her daughter) was the flower girl in our wedding and her brother was the ring bearer. They are such fun people!!

The picture below is of the adorable back pack-style diaper bag one of the ladies got me. She had one for her son and LOVED it, so she thought she would get one for me. I had to leave it with her mom (the lady who hosted the shower) so they could have SAM monogrammed on it. I think it is very cute and very boyish!

After the shower, Mrs. Rose (the lady who lived across the street) and her family came back to my grandma’s to visit for a little while. Mary Rose (Bonnie’s daughter) really enjoyed playing with Peeper and I enjoyed holding Sarah (the aforementioned 4.5 month old.) I can’t believe how much she has grown since I last saw her in May- she is now wearing 12 month clothes! WOW!!! My mom wanted a picture of all of us (and Peeper of course) so we obliged.

Here are pictures of the completed crib and curtains. My grandmother finished the crib skirt, blanket, and harlequins for the curtains and gave them to me at the shower. I love all the fun colors and hope Sam enjoys them too!! There is nothing like homemade items from my grandmother!

Here are two attempts at getting all the gifts in a picture. My mom had to take two pictures because we also received our Baby Einstein Activity Jumper and it was too big to try to put in the crib with all the other gifts.

After this whirlwind visit from my mom and weekend, Peeper is exhausted. Here is what he looks like as I type this. HA!

I also received enough cash and/or checks to be able to purchase my other dozen of Happy Heinys cloth diapers, the diaper pail liner bags, and a wet bag for the diaper bag. I completed that order right before I updated the blog and am super pumped about FINALLY having all the necessary “supplies” in order to effectively cloth diaper Sam. Well, I guess, I am still missing Sam the part but he will be along shortly!

A brief little Sam update… he has started having hiccups! He had them for the first time Saturday night while I was sitting with peas on my ankles. Peeper was lying in my lap with his head on my belly (one of his favorite positions now) and every time Sam would hiccup Peeper’s head would bob up and down. It was hilarious!!!!

To view more pictures of the shower and some close-ups of some of the gifts, click on the picture below. Thank you for being patient and reading this rather long post. I will TRY not to be so lengthy in the future.



Kershaw Shower

*One last thing- videos have been updated on Peeper and Sam’s page, so be sure to click on the tabs at the top to check them out!

Update on Sam…

Good afternoon/evening!

We had a 32 week ultrasound this afternoon and were able to get some excellent 3D pictures of our little Sam. I should probably not really refer to him as “little” since he weighs in at 4lb 14oz! The ultrasound tech said that we were on track for an estimated 8.5lb baby if I am full-term! WOW! There is nothing “little” about that! HA! Here is one of the pictures of Sam.

The ultrasound tech was really impressed with his chubby cheeks and she thinks he has a dimple in his chin! How sweet! In our last ultrasound, she made the comment that he had big feet. This didn’t really surprise us since I (Steph) don’t have the world’s smallest feet. Well, she got an excellent shot of one of his feet and was able to measure it. It measured 7cm- or almost 3 inches long! He is definitely going to have big feet when he is born, since they will only continue to get bigger as he grows more! Here is a picture of his big foot!

Based on the ultrasound he is measuring 34 weeks, but when the doctor measured me with the measuring tape, I still measure right on track at 32 weeks.

While we were looking at Sam, he woke up from his nap a little and yawned for us. Here is a pic of that.

There were lots of other pictures taken and I have posted them in an online photo album. If you wish to look at them, click on the picture below or on the album labelled “32 week ultrasound” under “Our Photo Albums” up at the top, on the right.



32 Week Ultrasound

Lastly, she made a video of him moving around. You can view it below.

Fun little update…

A few blog posts ago, I talked about a dilemma I was facing in deciding whether or not to order a collage print that I created of firework pictures to start a photography wall in our apartment. Well, the more I thought about, read the comments left on here, and talked it over with Travis and other friends, I/we decided to go for it. I ordered a 16×20 print and we picked up a frame at Michael’s last week since they were on sale. The print came in Saturday and you would’ve thought it was Christmas day in the Wright household. I, basically, stalked the mail man to see if he would come over to our apartment since we knew the pic wouldn’t fit in our box. After he finished sorting mail in the boxes, he pulled over and parked in front of the building beside us. He got out and was only carrying a white tube with him- I knew that was my collage. He dropped it off and I opened the door to get it (I didn’t want him to know I was REALLY stalking him- HA!) I gave it to Travis and he immediately went to our dining room table and started opening the tube. I went to the nursery and grabbed the frame and some glass cleaner (the glass cleaner isn’t in the nursery, even though that is how that sentence made it sound.) I cleaned the frame and we commenced to getting the photo in and situated “just right.” Next, we took down the little picture of Travis and I hanging above our mantle and Travis hung the collage. We then just stood back and admired the photo and threw all doubts of whether or not we should’ve done this out the window- it looks GREAT and the crazy thing is that despite the large size of the picture, once it got on this gigantic sloping wall, it didn’t look that big- it is the perfect size. Here is a shot of my mantle and the collage.

We moved the picture of us to the wall behind the couch and it looks better there since it is a much smaller pic on a much smaller wall. This is where the “only child shrine” (as Travis and I refer to them) will be going once Sam is born.

Now for a silly Peeper update. One of his favorite things to do is sleep beside you on the couch on one of “his” pillows. When you get up to do something, he likes to get up and curl up where you had been sitting since it is nice and warm there. Well, Travis leaned forward the other day on the couch and Peeper didn’t hesitate to get behind him on “his” pillows. It was too funny. I love the picture below, because it seems like Peeper is thinking “I hope Daddy realizes I am back here and doesn’t lean back and squish me.”

Saturday started our weeks of excitement. Over the next couple of weeks, we will have a couple of visitors and go on a couple of trips. I am SO EXCITED! Well, this past Saturday, brought Kaleb, Ginny, and Sophia to our apartment. They were on their way to the outer banks for Ginny’s family reunion and decided to drive to our place and spend the night before continuing onward on Sunday. Ginny and I worked at Appalachian Outreach in Jefferson City, TN together. I really enjoyed working with her. AO is a homelessness/poverty relief ministry that has a homeless shelter, food pantry, clothing distribution, home repair ministry, and various other community activities to help low-income families in east TN. Ginny was the Hispanic coordinator and dealt with the Hispanic clients of AO. She was a Spanish major at Carson-Newman and that is what helped her with the job. She also lived with Travis and I for about a month while she was transitioning from her AO job to moving back to Nebraska to live with her parents. We secretly think she did that to convince Kaleb to propose- HA! Anyway, they had a little girl last July and this was the first time we were able to meet little Sophia in person- she is ADORABLE! She slept in a pack and play in Sam’s room but before she went to bed, she had playtime in Sam’s crib. It was so funny! She was jumping around and playing with little lotion samples. Travis got our camera and took a couple of pictures. You can see more of the cute little girl by clicking on “Sophia” under “Our Photo Albums” on the right side of your screen.

She seems to be so proud of herself for standing in the crib without holding onto anything- such a cute girl.

One last thing, we are having a 3rd ultrasound done tomorrow (Tuesday) so be sure to check back tomorrow night to see some updated pictures of Sam! Travis and I are so excited- we can’t wait! We love little peeks inside of my belly. I want to know how he is positioned in my belly so I know what body part he likes to kick me with. HA!

A Cause for Celebration

Yesterday, Travis received notification from NOBTS that he was the recipient of a scholarship for this upcoming Fall semester. It was the largest amount he has received while doing his PhD studies! Needless to say, we were just a bit excited because this will help us tremendously in budgeting out the rest of his tuition along with all these miscellaneous fees we will have to pay this last semester (dissertation printing, binding, and graduation fees, along with a plane ticket to go down to defend his dissertation.) So, in celebration, we went to Red Robin for supper last night. I still have low iron counts so eating red meat is still a high priority in my diet and they have the best burgers on the planet! Travis ordered a fancy drink, Blueberry Pomegranate Limeade, and said it was delicious. It had blueberries, Sprite, limes, and pomegranate flavoring. I tasted it and it had way too much lime flavor in it for me- so I stuck with my sweet tea. Here is a picture of Travis with his fruity drink.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, our location is visited by the Red Robin mascot. He came by our table once and we joked about taking a picture since I, obviously, had my camera with me. The robin played along and acted like he was posing and then he did some bodybuilding poses before high-5ing us and going to celebrate a birthday. I didn’t take a picture that time. A few minutes later, he visited us again and did some silly poses for a pretend camera. This time, I took a picture of Travis and the robin.

Since I was documenting our visit, I took pictures of the left-over halves of our burgers. We brought them home and had them for lunch today- YUM! The one on the left is mine- the Au Brie Burger. It was the winner of a kids build-your-own-burger contest. It consisted of a foccaccia bun, au gratin potatoes, melted brie cheese, romaine lettuce, balsamic marinated tomatoes, and the meat. I requested no tomatoes since the acidity of vinegar has not been kind to my pregnant stomach. It was SO GOOD! The burger on the right was Travis’- the A1 Peppercorn Burger. It had fried onions, red onions, tomatoes, A1 peppercorn sauce, swiss cheese, and the meat. He really liked it, too. Here are the yummy burgers…

We love Red Robin and enjoy going there when we have friends and family come to visit. It has a great atmosphere and if you join their e-club you get a free burger and dessert during the month of your birthday. How awesome!!!

In some other, off the wall news. Most of you know that we discontinued our cable TV service a couple of months ago. We totally haven’t missed it. In fact, during the day, I RARELY turn the TV on anymore. We get lots of channels with the digital rabbit ears system and love the quality and variety. One of the channels we get, ch. 50.2, is called RTN (short for Retro Television Network) and we LOVE IT. At night, this is usually all we watch. Their showings vary across the country, but we are pretty pleased with the shows that Raleigh broadcasts- Hawaii 5-0, A-Team, Knight Rider, Airwolf (one of my all-time favs,) Mission Impossible, It Takes a Thief, and some others. Tonight, we were watching Mission Impossible and enjoyed a guest appearance by none other than my ALL-TIME favorite Trekkie- Spock (aka Leonard Nimoy.) The original Star Trek TV series is probably my #2 all-time favorite TV show (#1 is Trapper John, MD another OLDIE.) I even have a black and white canvas print of the original cast (when the director’s wife was still on the show and not just the voice of the computer- ok, yeah I am a nerd) but, once we moved to NC, Travis finally claimed it and took it to his office where it is proudly on display. I am ok with that, now. HA! So, back to tonight, I got a bit excited and took a picture of him on the TV- just for proof. It also provided a good laugh because it shows just how old the show is! I am loving his sideburns! Here is the world’s greatest vulcan-

Sorry for the flash reflection and, yes, I purposefully made this picture display bigger than the other ones in the post- just to pay homage and reiterate- Live Long and Prosper!!

Ok, now that all 3 of our blog readers are thinking that I have fallen of the deep end into the nerdy swimming pool, I will end this post before it gets worse. HA!!